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13.5 Meter World Championships
Going good Lane! I flew yesterday, a short local soaring flight. Took a tow behind a Wilga (They have a bunch of them here), and used FES a couple times to find lift under solid overcast.
Gliders here so far are a handful of Silent Electro, a Silent Targa, Sparrowhawk R, the Mini LAK (built across the street from Pociunai), a sawed down Diana 2, and the Russia AC-4D. We've been posting as much as we can on our blog including a bunch of pictures from yesterday. Today and Tomorrow are the final practice days. I flew with my IGCDroid program runnig yesterday and my flight showed up well on Glideport.aero! IGC has enough trackers here that the entire field should be carrying trackers each day. I assume the contest tracking page should be available through the contest website...www.wgc2015.lt We all hope the GP14 can get here for some or all of the contest. We want to see how it shapes up against the other gliders in the class, and they have put SO much work into trying to have it ready it would be a shame if it couldn't fly here. Blog is https://ussoaringteam2015lithuania.wordpress.com |
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On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 11:15:10 PM UTC+1, Al McNamara wrote:
Why have a FES in a GP14 when you could have the retractable electric self-launcher version - and forego the extra drag and ugliness of the prop moustache? Speed of starting. But speed of starting is irrelevant for self launching and for self-retrieving speed of starting is a tiny factor compared with probability of starting which, for any with well designed and maintained electric powered glider, will be a near certainty. |
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Website on the GP14. One of the best websites I have seen for a glider manufacturer. Good sign!
http://www.gpgliders.com/gp-14-velo-0 |
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hi there,
I'd like to see the sawed down diana. Thanks to post a picture in your blog, if you have a chance, and I wish you good weather for the next 2 weeks Philipp |
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Good results (2nd and 3rd) for team USA on the first competition day although the "sawed down Diana" ;-) earned a nearly 100 point advantage. Unfortunately, the pace of development in this new 13.5m class gives the latest designs significant advantages. Considering that I think the U.S. Team had an amazing first day.
Good to see a real racing task (assigned task) called on day 1. Huge bummer that Sabastain Kawa was not able to attend in the new GP14. RESULTS: http://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/135...15-08-02/daily |
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Technically..tied for second. It was a really good team flight on a blue day. More tomorrow!
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On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 10:17:48 AM UTC-7, Tony wrote:
Technically..tied for second. It was a really good team flight on a blue day. More tomorrow! A wonderful start. Keep it up! Jim |
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Great start, Bravo...
And by the way, thanks for the versus pics Philipp |
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Sean Fidler pisze:
Huge bummer that Sabastain Kawa was not able to attend in the new GP14. They still hope to get the glider ready for second competition week. -- WojtuÅ› |
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